GERMANY: Tar; Hair Dye

Rollicking Storm Troopers swept into a barber shop at Beuthen near the German-Polish frontier last week, seized pretty Manicurist Lotte Feingraeber. "Are you engaged to a Jew? Don't lie to us!" they roared. "Ja" admitted Lotte Feingraeber.

With a will the Nazi youths shaved the manicurist bald as an owl. Smearing her with tar, they hung around her neck a sign I PROSTITUTED MYSELF TO A JEW, dragged her up & down the streets of Beuthen until they were tired, finally let her go.

Since Lotte Feingraeber is Polish, she ducked down a side street,...

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